Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released mac os monterey 12.3 beta 1.
it's now available to developers and usually within 24 hours or so it will be released to
public beta testers if it is not it will probably be next week this came in at 4.21 gigabytes that's
on an m1 macbook pro 13 inch but this can vary in size depending on if you were on 12.2 release
candidate like this mac or the public version of 12.2 which then it has to reinstall the whole os
to go to the beta version and this could be a much larger install at 12 gigabytes it just depends
which version you're on now along with this apple also released ios 15.4 beta 1 ipad os 15.4 beta
1 watch os 8.5 beta 1 and tv os 15.4 beta 1. now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number
and then talk about what's new as this has some very exciting features in it or at least
one very exciting feature now as you can see this is 12.3 beta and here is the build number 21e5196i
this just tells us that we're on the correct version that's currently available
so we'll go ahead and close this out and the first major feature is universal control we've been
waiting for this since the announcement of ios 15 and ipad os 15 along with mac os monterey so let
me show you how that works but at first we need to enable it by going to our system preferences
now typically it's enabled by default but you can see it under displays and under displays you'll
see we have advanced under advanced we'll go into advanced and you'll see we have it enabled here
it says allow your cursor and keyboard to move between any nearby mac or ipad
your cursor and keyboard can be used on any nearby mac or ipad signed into your icloud account also
you have pushed through the edge of the display to connected nearby mac or ipad and you also have
an option to automatically reconnect to any nearby mac or ipad this was not checked by default for me
compatibility is from 2016 max and later for the most part with the exception of the 5k imac which
is supported on this as well so the 2015 5k imac and you need bluetooth wifi and handoff turned on
and must be within 10 meters or so of each other if you're planning to use this with an ipad as
well i'll show you that in my demo you'll need an ipad pro an ipad air third generation or later an
ipad 6 generation or later or an ipad mini 5th generation in later now let me show you how this
works for universal control to work what you'll need to do is have the settings on on the mac
like i said with 12.3 beta 1 as well as ipad os 15.4 beta 1. go to your settings under general
go to airplay and handoff make sure cursor and keyboard beta is turned on once you have that
on it should work so we'll just put it on the magic keyboard here to make this a little easier
and with our cursor on the macbook we'll just drag it to the right corner give it just a moment here
and we'll try again and you'll see it sort of pops into the side of the ipad drag it over and there
you go so now it works i can control the ipad with the mac keyboard and mouse or trackpad go to apple
maybe click in here type apple.com you'll see the keyboard works hit enter and it will load the same
is true using the magic keyboard on the ipad to go over to the mac so we can drag over to the left
here you'll see it's working on the key or on the screen we'll go to safari and again type apple.com
and hit return or enter and there we go and we can load it back and forth so it works back and forth
it works with that as well as third-party accessories such as the magic trackpad
so if i drag here you'll see that it's controlling it on my screen with the trackpad
and again it's working over here so if you have a bluetooth trackpad or mouse paired it will work
with that as well you can also drag and drop files and more so maybe you want to drag and drop a file
maybe this wallpaper here will drag and drop i will drag this one over maybe we'll drag it over
here you'll see it's dragging 11 download files or folders and so it may have some issues here and
there as it is in beta but it does work and you can go back and forth between the devices with it
now there's some updates as well with mac os that also are from ipad os so not just universal
control but other things as well if you have air airpods airpods pro or any of those and you need
to update the firmware there's now code in mac os 12.3 that will allow this now unfortunately
there's no manual updater as we had hoped for but you can have them updated so if you don't
have an iphone or ipad what you'll do is just pair these to your mac go to your bluetooth pair them
once they're paired then you plug these in maybe have them charge here make sure they're charged
well usually over 50 percent close them set them aside and just wait for them to update
nine to five mac was able to confirm they were able to get them to update by doing that process
so there's no specific process to do that maybe one day we'll get a manual updater but at least
they'll update for you also just like on ios 15.4 mac os 12.3 adds additional support for the ps5
dual sense controller in the sense that you get the adaptive trigger support now so now developers
can develop games enabling the adaptive triggers with haptic feedback so if you've ever used these
these are the best triggers for different platforming games call of duty things like that
and now developers can have access to that so that's something they've added in this update
so that's great to see within this update within messages we have 37 new emoji this is to comply
with the latest unicode standard 14 just like they do every year they've added this to ios
ipad os watch os and mac os and you can see them here so you have an x-ray and bubbles this is
all the different ones you have a nest with eggs a nest without eggs you have a palm facing up a palm
facing down a palm facing left and right a melting face and different skin tones to go along with
that so 37 different changes along with different skin tones to match so those are available in this
update as well now also they've updated tv so if we go into the tv app there's some new preferences
so within tv if we go to tv and then preferences you'll see that we have under general we now have
an up next display where it says choose the art you want to see and you're up next watch
list still frame shows still frames from what you're watching poster art shows the main title
images for the shows or movies so you can select still frame or poster art either one is there
and that's up to you so that's just a new option within tv additionally within keychain there's a
new space as well so if we go into preferences and then we find our keychain or our passwords
within our passwords i've created a test password this isn't a real one but if we go to edit under
edit we now have a notes field so we can leave a note maybe make a note about the specific password
maybe it's an old password and we can just leave that click save and it saves across our devices
so that's something they've updated as well now within safari there's now a pass key extension and
what that means is if you have a supported website support for passkey technology allows you to sign
in to different past key compatible websites and apps on mac and ipad using an iphone with a saved
pass key so that's now available of course the website has to support that once it's enabled
you'll be able to use that now there is something else worth noting kernel extensions that have been
deprecated so within 12.3 it deprecates a kernel extension which is used for dropbox and microsoft
onedrive however apple notes that both companies have cloud storage fixes currently in beta so if
you use either of those you may want to wait to update now additionally they've added the option
for icloud plus custom email domains now this is available in 15.4 but within mac os 12.3 you'll
have to go to icloud.com to set that up so it's not enabled within this beta according to apple
it's sort of here but there's no option to go to it from any of the preferences or the mail app
and they've mentioned that specifically and that's one of the known issues within this update
there are seven known issues that's one of the notable ones that i just mentioned
but also some connection issues that can happen with universal control and also virtual machines
running on apple silicon are not currently able to install this beta so those are some things to note
if you're looking to install the beta you won't be able to do that they've also resolved some issues
so they've fixed some issues with shortcuts xcode and text but most of them are developer focused
or within the underlying code so a few different fixes here but nothing specific that's large that
may be forward-facing that you'll see right away that leads me to should you install mac
os 12.3 beta 1 well considering the different things that i've mentioned with the known issues
if you want to try it with a virtual machine you actually can't however there are some
notable issues and if that's a problem for you such as dropbox and microsoft onedrive
well then i wouldn't install it however if you have an extra machine you want to try it out
try out universal control you definitely could do that go into your displays mess around with
that with your ipad and more on 15.4 you could definitely do that but just keep in mind you will
have some bugs so if you're trying to fix an issue i typically recommend against installing betas on
your main production machine i don't install them on a production machine because there can always
be bugs that could affect my production such as final cut and more so typically i would wait
also if you're wondering when to expect maybe beta 2 or the final release well currently i
wouldn't expect beta 2 next week usually we're on a couple week cycle or a bi-weekly cycle
so maybe the second week of february we will see some sort of beta 2 with a final release
typically within march or so but we don't know for sure and apple hasn't specified a date yet so
probably within the first week of march but we could have one sooner or even later than
that we just don't know at this point maybe we'll have a spring event in march as well as
far as performance and everything else well performance seems okay i'm screen recording
it's working just fine it's nice and smooth so it seems like it's okay so performance
should be the same as mac os monterey but you could have some bugs here and there
and battery life if you're running a mac like i am a macbook you'll see battery life here seems
to be okay but there's no way to know and running betas will always give you some issues from time
to time so if you're hoping to get great battery life i would stay away from the beta you'll see
the capacity on this one is 99 and it's normal for the battery condition so no issues there
seems to be running fine and hopefully we'll see some additional features by the time it's released
but then we'll be on to mac os 13 by the time wwdc rolls around in june so that's everything
with mac os 12.3 beta 1. if i find anything else i'll be sure to let you know in future videos
and of course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link the iphone version
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